Government Quotes

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The m...

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the ma...

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a defic...

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done...

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - ...

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if t...

The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motiv...

Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely...

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for...

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, o...

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indige...

Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, mere...

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not...

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, o...

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our proble...

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vig...

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, wi...

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion th...

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; ...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our ...

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his idea...

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,non-citizens face an executive that...

The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the imp...

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will b...

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou...

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I neve...

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the governm...

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history...

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when...

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the...

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrain...

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…get...

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles wi...

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off t...

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have d...

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently ha...

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain...

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness...

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off th...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with d...

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness ...

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our father...

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that ...

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as ...

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversatio...

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust a...

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of acade...

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of ca...

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined ...

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined b...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...

The state was made for man, not man for state.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For not...

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their se...

Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of a...

Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology...

In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they ...

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

Our present system is unique in world history, because over and above its physical and economic cons...

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of c...

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-...

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption a...

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is ...

Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagan...